Latin Words and Phrases Used in English

In 2015 they turned their shared studio in Chinatown into an ad hoc alternative art space and impromptu residency program called Practice. New York Times (Jan 12, 2017)

Google is trying to quell the debates roiling its workforce by setting new internal rules designed to limit offensive language and ad hominem attacks against fellow employees. Wall Street Journal (Jun 27, 2018)

Many a scientist, after spending thousands of hours peering down a microscope at some repeated shape, is familiar with the phenomenon of seeing that shape ad nauseam on blank walls, and endlessly in dreams. Salon (Dec 5, 2015)

He was returning now after an absence of thirteen years to his old alma mater, Pennsylvania College, in Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War

Mark Owen isn’t his real name, but book publisher Penguin says its new author was a bona fide Navy SEAL. Time (Aug 24, 2012)

Installed in a prime position in the Basilica di San Marco, which at that time was the official church of the Venetian state, it became a de facto symbol of the city and its empire. New York Times (Mar 31, 2011)

I’m still fantasizing that a deus ex machina will descend from the heavens to resolve the situation. Love, Hate & Other Filters

Our house was the highest on the mountainside, which made it, ergo, the coolest spot in Welch. The Glass Castle

There are also blueberries and strawberries, and a whole second string of less popular players: gooseberries, boysenberries, huckleberries, et al. Washington Post (Apr 24, 2020)

If New York changes its rule, would the defendants be able to claim that the changes are retroactive ex post facto laws, changing criminal liability after the fact of the crime’s commission? Slate (Apr 17, 2018)

Her gravitas and solemnity help ground even the silliest scenes. The Verge (Dec 2, 2015)

Shultz filed his habeas corpus petition, and the Kansas Supreme Court commissioned one of its own retired justices, the Honorable Walter G. Thiele, to conduct a full-scale hearing. In Cold Blood

If Toby went to the apartment right now, a mea culpa on his lips, Luke would forgive him. We'll Fly Away

The final revelations, including the modus operandi of the crimes, will surprise all but the most astute readers. Washington Post (Jul 15, 2015)

She didn’t run, per se, but she left the line and did a ridiculously fast walk toward the back of the store, near the clearance section, where they did their cooking classes. Far from the Tree

“I am become persona non grata in that quarter. I am no wise welcome in the stateroom imperial.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves

Many of these cases were done on a pro bono basis, as I do half of my cases without fee. Washington Post (Aug 6, 2019)

The conversations all seemed the same to me: pro forma, predictable, even robotic. The Guardian (Dec 7, 2019)

“The law requires that all commodities customers be treated fairly, and on a pro rata basis,” he said. BusinessWeek (Nov 17, 2011)

A quid pro quo — seeking something in return for something — need not be improper. Seattle Times (Dec 3, 2019)

He wonders whether it begins in the same way as rigor mortis, the stiffening of muscles after death. Scientific American (Aug 2, 2013)

My family and neighbors never challenged the status quo. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement

On his second attempt, the pilot was able to get the plane on the ground safely and undoubtedly was quite happy to be back on terra firma. Time (Oct 3, 2016)

Representatives of the other two websites said their computers are programmed to copy data verbatim from Wikipedia, never checking whether it is false or factual. The World Is Flat

If the song is me, and the song is her, then she is me and vice versa. X: A Novel